So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Night Breed on the C64.

https://www.lemon64.com/game/night-breed

It's one of the first games I played on the system. 😊

This will be your first time playing HL2?? Lucky bastid

About half way through the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door at the moment. I've had the GameCube version there for years but just never got around to giving it a go.

Had a massive 'what the feck?!' moment when I booted it up and the first RPG style turn based battle began.

For all these years I've been 100% under the impression that the Paper Mario series were platformer games, hadn't a clue they were RPGs!

Edit- just figured it out, it's because I had Super Paper Mario on the Wii and of course that's the one title that's not an RPG

I had the same pack. I recall the awesome design on the box. :-)

Did you have a favorite from them? Mine was Snare - https://www.lemon64.com/game/snare-thalamus [Mind Benders].

I'd say probably Midnight Resistance was mine, a very decent port iirc. Still remember the old 'siamese123' code for it (infinite lives I think??)

You kinda have to, I mean, the Commodore is keeping up with you so you've no choice really…

Still have my Night Moves hidden high up on the ceiling above the door into my gaming room. I really wanted to be good at Sly Spy but wasn’t and Midnight Resistance was probably the best game on it but ultimately they were all multi loaders I think so Nightbreed and Snare got the most play time because I was better at them.

And then I discovered Turrican, Last Ninja, Bruce Lee, Action Biker, Blue Max , Microprose Soccer, Exploding Fist, IK+ and the Dizzy games and that was the end of Night Moves and Mindbenders. Not long after that the Datel Action Replay arrived with a disc drive and I reckon I spent more time copying games than playing them.

Of those others you mentioned, I love Turrican, Last Ninja, Bruce Lee, Exploding Fist, IK+ & most of the Dizzy games - Magic land likely being my favorite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_(series). I too have lots of Powerpack games and many other games mag cassette tapes. Happy days.

remarkably well. About a year ago I had the C64 on the kitchen counter for a long weekend with terrible weather outside and loaded up pretty much every cassette. Only about 5% had an issue. And I am pretty sure most of those had that issue last time I saw them in the 90s.

The C64 itself fared a lot better than any of my Amigas all of which needed a recap (C64 did not)… and the cassettes seem to have endured 30 years of storage in various damp attics far better than the floppy discs for the Amiga.

Finally got around to Metroid Dread and have been very impressed so far, though it's a bit more linear than I was expecting based on its feedback. Controls are the best the series has even seen, which is great as even random mooks can decimate your lifebar if you're not paying attention — holy balls, everything hits you like you owe them money in this thing. I mistimed a jump on a boss and got three-shotted from a full health bar 3/4s of the way through the fight. It'd be infuriating if the game didn't control like a gold-medal figure skater.

Taking the word 'playing' to new lengths here (!) but I was messing about with the Gameboy camera a bit last night via the Analogue pocket.

I had a bit of a brainwave that you can actually take gameplay screenshots with the Pocket.

This means you can take a photo with the Gameboy camera, take a screenshot with the pocket and then get your Gameboy pocket photos off the cart and actually onto an SD card/Computer.

Also, if you shine a **** load of light onto your face (a phone camera torch works well) you can really up the quality of portrait photos.

I think I might actually pick up one of those 3D printed lens adapters for a bit of fun.

Huh! I did not know that but now that you say it, it really has a very Warioware type aesthetic with the oddness of the menus.

Managed to get the screenshots off the SD card, it actually works really well. Say hello to my cats in 8bit monochrome form haha

Finished Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door last night. First run through it on the Switch. Great game for handheld mode, really suits it.

The level up mechanic coupled with the badge system is fairly simple on the surface but you can actually do quite a lot with it.

Definitely not the hardest game in the world, but just a lot of fun.

I do have some slight niggles, there's a lot of backtracking and at times, it does feel very much a game from 2004.

Have both Echoes of Wisdom and Yakuza Kiwami to move onto next. I reckon they might be my Switch Swansong before the Switch 2 is released.

Playing the DONKEY KONG COUNTRY series last while.

I never actually properly played two and three, great fun .

Also a classic on the snes is taking up some of my time . ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBOURS..brilliant brilliant game .

Yeah played the first one to death ...was great .the graphics blew my mind when it was first released , and they still do now .timeless

They are a strange design ,like they kinda look digitised rare style at the time like killer instinct but the animation is smooth as butter .

Anyway a real treat to play the 2nd a 3rd one

I'm up to Nova Prospekt in Half Life 2. The game is utterly brilliant. The world building, the sense of oppressive isolation in it, the wonderful set pieces...its a game I find myself really and genuinely looking forward to playing when I get a chance.

I'd forgotten just how good it is.